Outdoor kitchen

Not only are we making our garden look good, but it’s about functionality more than anything. Blurring the lines between the indoors and the outdoors to create a practical living space where we can enjoy more of our home and serve our guests. And with the endless list of outdoor cooking gadgets like gas barbecues, charcoal grills, and clay ovens, you can have an outdoor kitchen that’s multifunctional as well as modern. You can take your design even further and include a bespoke outdoor bar, perfect for entertaining. But nothing makes an outdoor kitchen feel more exotic than incorporating natural timbers in your design.

When shopping for your materials, you want to opt for high-quality, durable timbers that can withstand the elements and offer strong structural integrity. Luckily for you, that covers pretty much all our product range, but our Western Red Cedar, Douglas Fir, Siberian Larch, and Thermo Ayous are particularly praised for their resilience, resistance to decay, fire and moisture.

Social seating

If you’re planning to entertain this Summer, the first thing you need to think about is where you’re going to seat everyone. Well, we’ve got the perfect solution as bespoke timber seating areas have become an integral part of garden renovations. With just a small order of timber, you can build an area that will seat several people at once. There are many different ways of doing this.

Firstly, there’s the custom-made timber benches, built from the ground up in a typical rectangular style that you can decorate with some waterproof cushions. Usually built using our Western Red Cedar P.A.R. products, you can build one of these anywhere in your garden that is most convenient for you and your company.

Secondly, you can opt for the floating bench, typically built with a slightly sturdier timber material, our hardwood decking. These benches are fixed against a wall of some sort instead from the ground to achieve that floating effect, a very contemporary design that’s often located in a corner of your garden.

Then there’s the beautiful round fire pits. Another one usually built with our hardwood materials, these are perfect for entertaining large groups with everyone sat around a cosy fire pit allowing gatherings to continue long into the night.

You can also consider a more practical bench, one built with a hollow interior to cater for storage as well as seating you and your visitors.

Lastly, you can get creative. Build something that serves as an attraction as well as seating and give your guests something to really talk about! The limit of your outdoor seating is your own imagination! That’s the beauty of building a bespoke bench with natural timbers tailored to your wants and needs, you can take it to new extremes and create something bold and unique.

So, are any of these design ideas sparking some inspiration for you? If so, why not make an order for your timber now and begin getting your garden ready for entertaining this Summer.